Gary McLarty
Gary McLarty (January 16, 1941 – October 11, 2014) was an American stunt performer and stunt coordinator for film and television. His abilities earned him the nickname "Whiz Kid" in Hollywood. McLarty performed stunts in over 150 films between 1966 and 2004, among them The Wild Bunch, Little Big Man, The Longest Yard, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Jurassic Park, Heat, and Collateral. He was in the helicopter, as a stunt coordinator, when actor Vic Morrow and two children died in an accident on a "Twilight Zone" movie set. In the subsequent trial, McLarty testified that, prior to the accident, he had warned director John Landis that the stunt was too dangerous. In 1991 McLarty shot and killed his roommate. McLarty was cleared of all charges when the Deputy District Attorney determined that it was a clear case of justifiable homicide. On the Friday before as part of a bizarre series of events another man had been fatally shot by Sheriff's deputies at McLarty's Lake View Terrace ranch. McLarty's house also caught on fire and burned down during the same incident. McLarty semi-retired from stunt work in 2004. The following year, he testified at the murder trial of actor Robert Blake, testifying that Blake offered him $10,000 to murder Blake's wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley; McLarty declined. Bakley was fatally shot in Blake's car outside a restaurant in May 2001. Blake was thought by most to be the actual murderer, but was acquitted in a 2005 criminal trial. McLarty died on October 11, 2014 when a pickup truck driven by fellow stuntman Bob Orrison making a U-turn was broadsided by a Jeep Cherokee in Rancho Cordova, California, USA. Both stuntmen were killed instantly. The two persons in the Jeep Cherokee were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
The Blues Brothers
(Man in Toy Store)
...All the Marbles
(Thug)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
(Trooper)
Hooper
(Indian (uncredited))
Cannery Row
(Frat Boy #7)
Sometimes a Great Notion
Mitchell
(Mistretta's Hood)
Hard to Kill
(Shotgun Man)
Mayday at 40,000 Feet
(Carmichael)
The Capitol Conspiracy
(Hunter's Men)
Rooster Cogburn
(Emmett (uncredited))
Airwolf
(Truck Driver)
The Blues Brothers
(Stunt Coordinator)
Crazy Mama
(Stunts)
Animal House
(Stunt Coordinator)
Animal House
(Second Unit Director)
Beverly Hills Cop II
(Stunt Coordinator)
Clueless
(Stunts)
Beverly Hills Cop
(Stunt Coordinator)
Hook
(Stunts)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
(Stunts)
The Entity
(Stunts)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
(Stunts)
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
(Stunts)
Police Academy
(Stunts)
Modern Girls
(Stunts)
Commando
(Stunts)
Hooper
(Stunts)
A Breed Apart
(Stunt Coordinator)
Showgirls
(Stunts)
Patriot Games
(Stunts)
The Wild Bunch
(Stunts)
From Dusk Till Dawn
(Stunts)
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
(Stunts)
Roots of Evil
(Stunt Driver)
Heat
(Stunts)
Ice Station Zebra
(Stunts)
Policewomen
(Stunts)
Stone Cold
(Stunts)
Lethal Weapon 2
(Stunts)
A Low Down Dirty Shame
(Stunts)
Chasers
(Stunts)
Out of Bounds
(Stunts)
Over the Top
(Stunt Coordinator)
Little Big Man
(Stunts)
Blade Runner
(Stunts)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
(Stunts)
Chrome and Hot Leather
(Stunts)
The Way West
(Stunts)
Run, Angel, Run!
(Stunts)
C.C. and Company
(Stunts)
The Terminator
(Stunts)
Hellfighters
(Stunts)
The Bridge at Remagen
(Stunts)
The Front Page
(Stunts)
The Hollywood Mom's Mystery
(Stunt Driver)
The Undefeated
(Stunts)
The Longest Yard
(Stunts)
Beau Geste
(Stunts)
The Dion Brothers
(Stunts)
Collateral
(Stunt Driver)
The Losers
(Stunt Driver)
Bandolero!
(Stunts)
Sometimes a Great Notion
(Stunts)
McQ
(Stunt Driver)
The Stone Killer
(Stunts)
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
(Stunts)
A Boy and His Dog
(Stunts)
Mitchell
(Stunts)
Rooster Cogburn
(Stunts)
Flash and the Firecat
(Stunts)
Convoy
(Stunts)
Scarface
(Stunts)
Vigilante Force
(Stunts)
The Great Smokey Roadblock
(Stunts)
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
(Stunts)
The Return of a Man Called Horse
(Stunts)
Yes, Giorgio
(Stunts)
When Time Ran Out...
(Stunts)
Blue Thunder
(Stunts)
S.O.B.
(Stunts)
1941
(Stunts)
Gridlock
(Stunts)
The Man with Two Brains
(Stunts)
Coast to Coast
(Stunt Coordinator)
Stroker Ace
(Stunts)
The Vals
(Stunts)
Moving Violations
(Stunts)
The Man Who Loved Women
(Stunts)
Into the Night
(Stunts)
Warning Sign
(Stunts)
F/X
(Stunts)
To Live and Die in L.A.
(Stunts)
Never Too Young to Die
(Stunts)
Nightforce
(Stunts)
Triplecross
(Stunt Coordinator)
Rolling Vengeance
(Stunt Coordinator)
Winners Take All
(Stunts)
Wisdom
(Stunts)
Eye of the Tiger
(Stunts)
Rambo III
(Stunts)
Code Name: Zebra
(Stunts)
Big Trouble in Little China
(Stunts)
Bluffing It
(Stunt Coordinator)
Tango & Cash
(Stunts)
The Last of the Finest
(Stunts)
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
(Stunts)
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
(Stunts)
Road House
(Stunts)
Gettysburg
(Utility Stunts)
Captain America
(Stunts)
Brain Donors
(Stunts)
Ghost
(Stunts)
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
(Stunts)
Catchfire
(Stunts)
Extreme Justice
(Stunts)
976-EVIL II
(Stunts)
Warlock: The Armageddon
(Stunts)
Demolition Man
(Stunts)
Miami Blues
(Stunts)
Ghost Dad
(Stunts)
Last Action Hero
(Stunts)
Father Hood
(Stunts)
Nowhere to Run
(Stunts)
Falling Down
(Stunts)
Another 48 Hrs.
(Stunts)
Life Stinks
(Stunts)
Double Dragon
(Stunts)
Batman & Robin
(Stunts)
Sonic Impact
(Stunts)
The Puppet Masters
(Stunts)
Enemy of the State
(Stunts)
Shrunken Heads
(Stunts)
Hollywood Homicide
(Stunts)
Mr. Murder
(Stunts)
Raven Hawk
(Stunts)
Critical Mass
(Stunts)
Executive Decision
(Stunts)
Lethal Weapon 4
(Stunts)
Wyatt Earp
(Stunts)
Waterworld
(Stunts)
Murder Without Conviction
(Stunt Driver)
The Rich Man's Wife
(Stunts)
The Phantom
(Stunts)
Jade
(Stunts)
Josh & S.A.M.
(Stunts)
The Sleepwalker Killing
(Stunts)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
(Stunts)
Full Eclipse
(Stunts)
Active Stealth
(Stunts)
Gone in Sixty Seconds
(Stunts)
Chisum
(Stunts)
Night of the Running Man
(Stunts)
The Siege
(Stunts)
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
(Stunts)
The Seventh Sign
(Stunts)
Maximum Overdrive
(Stunts)
Less Than Zero
(Stunts)
Jurassic Park
(Stunts)
Cobra
(Stunts)
Days of Thunder
(Stunt Coordinator)
The Sunchaser
(Stunts)
The War Wagon
(Stunts)